Old Single Chamber Bee Box with Cigar Box Wood Slider wood duck though the hand and sensibility

though the hand and sensibility of their maker is very much present

and one small tear in the print at top center

some have been used

Just a super sweet old carved whimsy

4 1/4" across at handle

Old Single Chamber Bee Box with Cigar Box Wood Slider wood duck though the hand and sensibilityI've come to keep an eye out for old bee boxes, especially for the fact that they tend to vary widely, each one representing its individual maker's solution to the problem of capturing, releasing, and transporting bees. This one is pretty straight forward as far as they go, with just a single chamber, perhaps just for carrying a queen(?) fronted with a pane of glass and backed with a sliding door, which looks to have been cut from a cigar box, as